Exhibitions & Shows
The best of the year's art exhibitions and shows, compiled by Wallpaper*
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The Whitney plots Harold Cohen’s artistic AI adventures
‘Harold Cohen: AARON’, at the Whitney Museum of American Art celebrates the artist’s software – the earliest AI program for artmaking – as an artwork in its own right
By Hannah Silver Published
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Cindy Sherman’s unsettling, fragmented portraits go on show in New York
Cindy Sherman unveils 30 new works at Hauser & Wirth, New York
By Hannah Silver Published
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Meredith Monk’s interdisciplinary art sets all the senses singing in Amsterdam show
‘Meredith Monk: Calling’ at Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, is both a series of concerts and a deep-dive into Monk’s eclectic oeuvre
By Hannah Silver Published
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Space for My Body: Anu Põder’s retrospective opens in Switzerland
Estonian artist Anu Põder is celebrated by Switzerland’s Muzeum Susch in an exhibition curated by Cecilia Alemani
By Hannah Silver Published
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Barbara Kruger wins Best Thought-Provoker in Wallpaper* Design Awards 2024
‘Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You’ by Barbara Kruger at Serpentine Gallery, opening 1 February 2024, is a Wallpaper* winner
By Hannah Silver Published
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Don't miss Sarah Lucas at Tate Britain: humour, desire, domesticity
‘Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas’ at Tate Britain spans the four decades the artist’s career
By Hannah Silver Last updated
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Glitch: artists explore the potential in imperfection in Munich
Glitch: The Art of Interference, a new group exhibition at Germany’s Pinakothek der Moderne, unites a host of cross generational artists
By Emily Steer Published
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Artists consider social realities for the Artes Mundi prize in Wales
The Artes Mundi, in its tenth edition, is based and exhibited around Wales and is headed up by Nigel Prince
By Amah-Rose Abrams Published
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Discover Liorah Tchiprout’s richly drawn depictions of an inner life
Liorah Tchiprout’s debut solo exhibition at the Marlborough Gallery, 'Two Eyes Wide Open at the Edge of Dawn', considers women’s interior lives
By Hannah Silver Published
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Nari Ward combines dance and materiality in London
Jamaican-born, New York-based Nari Ward reuses and reappropriates materials at Lehman Maupin in London
By Amah-Rose Abrams Published
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Paul Pfeiffer's digital image manipulations in LA dissect celebrity culture
The first US retrospective of multi-disciplinary artist Paul Pfeiffer’s work opens in LA at The Museum of Contemporary Art, candidly exploring modern society in the digital age
By Timothy Anscombe-Bell Published
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New London show offers a glimpse of tomorrow’s art sensations
The ‘New Contemporaries’ exhibition, at London’s Camden Art Centre, highlights the artists to watch
By Hannah Silver Published
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Patrick Martinez captures the passage of time in neon lights and graffiti, at ICA San Francisco
LA artist Patrick Martinez’s ‘Ghost Land’ is his most expansive presentation to date, on show at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco
By Anne Soward Published
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Artists explore the meaning of home through the lens of queer and trans domesticity in New York
Group exhibition ‘Dreaming of Home’, at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, uses a seminal Catherine Opie photograph as a springboard to explore the meaning of home today
By Hannah Silver Published
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AI and creativity: Louisiana museum considers the human in the machine
‘The Irreplaceable Human’ at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark asks what creativity is in the age of AI
By Amah-Rose Abrams Published
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Ghada Amer’s provocative embroidered texts speak of feminism and activism
Ghada Amer explores the power of words in ‘QR Codes Revisited – London’ at Goodman Gallery in London’s Mayfair
By Nargess Shahmanesh Banks Published
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Paulina Olowska brings Slavic folklore and androgynous nymphs to London
Paulina Olowska explores magical mysticism in ‘Squelchy Garden Mules and Mamunas’ at London’s Pace Gallery
By Hannah Silver Published
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Helen Johnson explores bodily distortion and ablution at Pilar Corrias
Helen Johnson’s ‘Opening’, at Pilar Corrias in London, unites psychological motives and physicality
By Emily Steer Published
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Lawrence Lek’s depressed self-driving cars offer a glimpse of an AI future in Berlin
Lawrence Lek’s installation ‘NOX’, created with LAS Art Foundation, takes over Berlin’s abandoned Kranzler Eck shopping centre
By Emily Steer Published
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Tradition meets fantasy in Sin Wai Kin’s subversion of storytelling
Sin Wai Kin’s ‘Portraits’, at London’s Soft Opening gallery, reconsiders historical narratives
By Hannah Silver Published
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Triennale Milano exhibition spotlights contemporary Italian art
The latest Triennale Milano exhibition, ‘Italian Painting Today’, is a showcase of artworks from the last three years
By Tianna Williams Published
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The Whiteness of Glass: strength, fragility and exclusion in New York
At Corning Museum of Glass, the medium’s problematic trajectory is reflected in a group show
By Osman Can Yerebakan Published
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They Got Time, You Belong To The City: Alvaro Barrington looks back
Alvaro Barrington considers his past in They Got Time: YOU BELONG TO THE CITY at Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin
By Amah-Rose Abrams Published
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Caroline Walker curates as Grimm Amsterdam explores domesticity in art
Curating ‘The Painted Room’ at Grimm Amsterdam, Caroline Walker explores the intimacy of interiors
By Emily Steer Published
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‘Women in Revolt!’ at Tate Britain is a deliciously angry tour de force of feminist art
‘Women in Revolt!’ puts feminist art from 1970 – 1990 under the spotlight at Tate Britain
By Hannah Silver Published
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Last chance to see: Ian Davenport’s ‘Lake’ of colour in London
Ian Davenport presents his largest-ever installation in ‘Lake’ at Waddington Custot
By Hannah Silver Published
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Doomsday, sci-fi and intimacy: Gray Wielebinski at the ICA, London
Gray Wielebinski plays with science fiction references in his first institutional solo show, ‘The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low’ at the ICA, London
By Katie Tobin Published